The Happiness Project: Why Facebook Can Make You Happier

[Jeff Hershberger]

Gretchen Rubin runs a great blog, The Happiness Project, and has recently begun writing for Slate. Here she takes on a topic that's important to the Cleveland SMC, Facebook:

http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2009/01/why-facebook-can-make-you-happier-.html

I've been talking to people on the Internet for a long time and heard every criticism. Gretchen addresses them, puts forward a theory to rebut them, and backs it up with concrete examples.